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Informationen zum Autor Brian Tucker is assistant professor of German at Wabash College in Indiana. Klappentext Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud explores how the riddle becomes a figure for reading and writing in early German Romanticism and how this model then enables Sigmund Freud's approach to the psyche. It traces a migration of ideas from literature to psychoanalysis and argues that the relationship between them must be situated at the methodological level. Zusammenfassung Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud explores how the riddle becomes a figure for reading and writing in early German Romanticism and how this model then enables Sigmund Freud's approach to the psyche. It traces a migration of ideas from literature to psychoanalysis and argues that the relationship between them must be situated at the methodological level. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Note on Translations and Abbreviations Chapter 3 Introduction Part 4 I. Riddle and Obscurity in Early Romanticism Chapter 5 Chapter 1: From Irritant to Ideal: The Transvaluation of Riddle Chapter 6 Chapter 2: The Closed Circle of Criticism Chapter 7 Chapter 3: Alethic Aesthetics: Hegel's Riddle of the Symbol Chapter 8 Chapter 4: Wordplay and Identity in Tieck's Early Prose Part 9 II. Reading the Psyche: The Human Riddle Chapter 10 Chapter 5: The Inaugural Gesture of Psychoanalysis Chapter 11 Chapter 6: The Joke and Its Other: Toward a Freudian Concept of Riddle Chapter 12 Chapter 7: The Riddle as Freud's Textual Model Chapter 13 Chapter 8: Trauma and the Other Oedipus Complex Chapter 14 Notes Chapter 15 Bibliography Chapter 16 Index
